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Show EVERY FLOWER HAS A STORY ALL ITS OWN Tin: vit( IS8US. Self-love is the significance of the narcissus In the flower language. The' reason Is told in an old Greek legend. le-gend. Echo, a beautiful nymph. al- ways hael to have the lust word when talking to anyone. As a punishment, Jlino deprived her of the power of; Bpet eh. except to repeat the last word she heard. DUO FINED V Echo fell In love with a beautiful! youth called Narcissus. Howover, he' got angry when she could not speak to him but always repeated the last word he said, and left her. This griev-l ed Echo so much, that she pined away and only her voice remained. Cupid and Diana decided to punish Narcissus Narcis-sus by letting him know what It meant to love without return. N AR ISM s I N I, I Narcissus had never loved nnyone. One day he came to a beautiful pool, anel bending over to drink, he saw his own face reflected In tho clear water. Ho thought it was a nymph and fell wildly in love with It However, How-ever, the vision woulel r.ot answer 1 when ho spoke and disappeared when; he touched It Narcissus roamed i round the pool and wept. His beauty faded until finally he died, knowing what It was to love hopelessly. His body was transformed Into a beautiful blossom with a yellow center, which' was called Narcissus. In tho cup Of I tho flower. It is said, the tears of tho, unhappy youth can bo found. 00 Old English was highly Inflected 1 and its adjectives had declensions. I |